Windows – Will I lose ALL drivers if I reset windows 10

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2 nights ago windows defender asked me to update some drivers, which I did but now I get a black screen with some cmd.exe title on it that disappears in a matter of seconds. I only got to read something about drivers, and I assume it's because drivers were not "well-installed", so I searched windows and it gave me the option to restore windows to a restore point set before the drivers updated. I restored twice today, the first time it said it could be restored because of an error, and it gave me the option to try again, which I did, but I got the same error. Besides, I keep getting the black screen every 30 minutes or so. I read a reset would clean my laptop, but, will USB ports, internet connection, screen or audio related drivers be deleted too?

Best Answer

Windows is not guaranteed to have drivers for all devices. So you do risk finding yourself with some drivers missing.

What I suggest :

  1. Try to restore from an earlier restore point. If this works you may stop here.
  2. Download all suitable drivers from your manufacturer
  3. Take an image backup of your entire system disk to an external media using AOMEI Backupper Standard Freeware.
  4. Use AOMEI to Create Bootable CD/DVD or USB Flash Drive Based on Windows PE
  5. Boot this media and ensure it can see the disk with your image backup.
  6. Now you can reset the computer, and install missing drivers.
  7. If you come up against an unsolvable problem, restore the backup as a last resort.
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